What is Try and Get Me / Hell Drivers about?

Double Feature: New 35mm Restoration! TRY AND GET ME, 1951, Film Noir Foundation, 91 min. Dir. Cy Endfield. The true story of a 1934 kidnapping and murder in San Jose provided the inspiration for this masterpiece originally released as THE SOUND OF FURY. Struggling ex-GI Howard Tyler (Frank Lovejoy) is lured into crime by flashy hood Jerry Slocum (Lloyd Bridges). Their escapade turns desperate when Jerry takes hostage the son of a wealthy local businessman. HELL DRIVERS, 1957, Park Circus, 101 min. Dir. Cy Endfield. An ex-con (Stanley Baker) trying to go straight takes a job driving for a corrupt trucking company, where the bosses pit the drivers against each other in a dangerous competition that leads to higher profits and ... death! Peggy Cummins is the saucy secretary who flirts her way through an array of up-and-coming stars.

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What is Try and Get Me / Hell Drivers about?: Double Feature: New 35mm Restoration! TRY AND GET ME, 1951, Film Noir Foundation, 91 min. Dir. Cy Endfield. The true story of a 1934 kidnapping and murder in San Jose provided the inspiration for this masterpiece originally released as THE SOUND OF FURY. Struggling ex-GI Howard Tyler (Frank Lovejoy) is lured into crime by flashy hood Jerry Slocum (Lloyd Bridges). Their escapade turns desperate when Jerry takes hostage the son of a wealthy local businessman.

HELL DRIVERS, 1957, Park Circus, 101 min. Dir. Cy Endfield. An ex-con (Stanley Baker) trying to go straight takes a job driving for a corrupt trucking company, where the bosses pit the drivers against each other in a dangerous competition that leads to higher profits and ... death! Peggy Cummins is the saucy secretary who flirts her way through an array of up-and-coming stars.